Computer Facilities
A wide variety of computing resources are available to Manhattan College students, faculty, and staff via JasperNet, the college’s campus-wide network. JasperNet deploys computing and information services to campus laboratories, classrooms, the library, and offices, as well as to student residence halls. Internet access is provided by a private Metro-Area fiber-optic network.
Fifteen microcomputer laboratories are located on the Manhattan College campus in the Research and Learning Center, DeLaSalle Hall, and Miguel Hall as well as the 24-hour library and Internet Café. These laboratories serving all Schools of the College, support approximately 450 Intel based microcomputers running under Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux as well as high performance CAD/CAM workstations. The library/technology center supports 40 systems in a library commons area, 30 in a 24x7 accessible lab, a 40 seat multimedia classroom and an internet cafe. Wireless 802.11a/b/g network access is available throughout campus including the library, all academic locations, and common areas.
JasperNet provides file sharing, printing services, and shared access to software applications. Network services include E-mail with Web access and laser printing in the laboratories. A wide range of software is available including math and statistical packages (Maple, MathCad, MatLab, SPSS), spreadsheets (Excel), compilers (C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual J ++, Fortran), databases (Access), word processors (MS Word), presentation graphics (PowerPoint), multimedia authoring (Adobe Creative Suite), web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer) as well as department-specific applications (E.g. I-DEAS, AutoCAD FLUENT). JasperNet provides full ethernet connectivity to students in all of the College’s residence halls. Students living in these networked buildings can connect their own networkable desktop or notebook computer directly to JasperNet. General support is provided at http://helpdesk.manhattan.edu.
The College’s web server - http://www.manhattan.edu - is maintained by the Computer Center and supports thousands of web pages including online catalogs, handbooks, and policies. JasperNet also supports online admissions, registration, scheduling, grading and payment at a secure website: https:\\self-service.manhattan.edu. Faculty members maintain web pages for their courses on a separate file server to facilitate the posting of online courseware. The college also supports the Blackboard Academic Suite with many courses having their own online web space including online materials, threaded discussion lists, a virtual classroom and digital drop boxes. A streaming video server for course content is also available.
Computer laboratories as well as many classrooms are equipped for digital overhead projection and many are used as hands-on classrooms. All classrooms are linked to JasperNet. Manhattan College also has servers running the Open VMS, UNIX and LINUX operating systems with compiler support for academic computing along with three Sun servers running Solaris and Oracle for administrative computing. These servers housed in the Research and Learning Center (RLC) are also linked to JasperNet.
Computer Laboratory Hours:
Research & Learning Center Lab
Monday -Friday: 8:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
DeLaSalle - CIS Labs
Monday -Friday: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.
(Extended Hours Provided as Required)
O’Malley Library Computing Labs
Open 24 hours, Monday-Friday and weekends:
Electronic Commons
Multimedia Classrooms
South Reading Room